Nigeria Matters

The Yoruba ‘Omoluabi’ Ethos And Nigeria’s Leadership

The Yoruba people in the Southwest of Nigeria are deeply immersed in culture, history, ideology, and other guiding principles that define their existence. This...

Southwest and the power of early preparation

The Southwest, although it now laudably has a Development Commission, ought to project a future that will match the best days of the past....

El-Rufai’s Detention: Justice, Political Vendetta Or A Test Of Nigeria’s Rule Of Law?

The continuing legal battle involving former Kaduna State Governor, NasirAhmad El-Rufai, has become much larger than the fate of one politician. Ithas developed into...

Orji Uzor Kalu As A Political Gladiator

One may not necessarily have to approve Orji Uzor Kalu’s style of government but a true student of politics will actually give the brash OUK mighty thumbs up for the feat he achieved during the last general elections in Nigeria...

Desperate Hours In Nigeria

In other climes, democracy is a most exciting experience, and a handover day, a national carnival that provokes widespread joy and pleasant feelings across the land. But here it was a day of great fear and trepidation, a day of gloom and mourning, a funeral almost...

I Love Nigeria…So Very Much!

Thanks to Mr. Paul Adujie, no one is ever going to be able to question my patriotism again. In the same stream, any one who calls into question the stated and unstated motive of our next president should be considered a traitor...

I love Nigeria Just Because…

I have said this in the past and I am doing so again pointedly. Nigerians have a dramatic effect on me. Nigerians are the bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh...

When ‘the Truth’ is Not Acceptable

How did we arrive at the juncture in our national life where the people no longer have faith in the sincerity and impartiality of those who should protect and lead them? A situation where the people are ready to doubt their leaders and security agents even when they swear to be telling the truth...

Who Cursed Nigeria With Obasanjo?

President Olusegun Obasanjo has, once again, moronically and sadistically decided to exacerbate the agony and pain of Nigerians by gratuitously increasing the pump price of Petroleum products...

This Penkelemesi: We Have No Dog in This Fight

Is it really the case that the Nigerian situation is a result of a dearth of solutions? Anyone who believes that is in deep denial. There is an over-abundance of solutions to the Nigerian problem...

Nigerians In The So-Called Diaspora: “Abuja, We Have A Problem”

I agree with the erudite 100 in their condemnation of the conduct and results of the polls in general, suggestions that fresh elections be conducted in all places where elections did not hold or were not properly conducted. However, I do think the Presidential election result should be left as it is...

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Solving Nigeria’s Energy Crisis

Oil prices are not going up and down because wars and threats of wars are on the news.  Nations of the world have done their arithmetic and come up with undeniable proof that the oil wells around oil-dependent areas like Nigeria will soon dry up...

Bird Flu: All Eyes On Nigeria?

Recently (January 2015), Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture, Akinwumi Adesina,...

How Much Is Your Life Worth?

Americans treat their dogs and cats better than the Nigerian government treat her people. In Nigeria, the vast majority of people do not have access to well-balanced meal, to the courts, to health and life insurance, and to medical care. Most have never been to the dentist. Never! Dogs and cats in the US have it made; while Nigerians have a life made in hell...

Turai Yar'adua: Beware of her ‘kunu-seller’ looks!

Under different circumstances, could there have been a few traits in this woman that might have been a virtue? I leave you to conclude. Did she want her husband to be in power for the good of our country? No. She wanted him in power but it was for her own sake...

Obama’s Difficult Presidency

President Obama has so far waged all the wars; with the Republicans, the Tea Party, a biased Fox news, Wall Street greed, Arizona immigration Laws, and the Taliban insurgents who are even more determined to spill American blood...

The Harvest Season Is Here

In the aftermath of the inauguration of the 6th...

US Diplomacy in Africa

It often amuses me when I read reports from Western journalists, who are fractionally knowledgeable about African history and civilization. Yet, these form the basis of preachings to Africans everywhere…

Market Economy Reform In Africa: Case Of Nigeria (2)

There is no doubt the continent of Africa needs reform. From one policy to the other, the continent continues to search for a focus that will take it out of the threshold of underdevelopment to the stage of stability and developed economy...

Osun 2026: Bola Oyebamiji in the spotlight

By Olufisayo Alebiosu The man in the glare of public...

The Adedibu Albatross Hanging on Alao-Akala’s Neck

Ibadan belongs to all of us. But too many of us have sat on our hands for too long while Baba Adedibu and his goons literally rode roughshod over parts of Ibadan, maiming people, destroying properties and holding the city hostage...